Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns write by Christopher A. LaLonde. This book was released on 2002. Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who am I? What am I? Where do I belong? These “grave concerns” take a lifetime for most people to answer. They become even trickier for American Indians, who all too often face literal and figurative burial by those in power. Such concerns permeate the works of Louis Owens, a mixedblood writer of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent. In this first book-length examination of Owens’s writings, Chris LaLonde focuses on five critically acclaimed novels: The Sharpest Sight, Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River. According to LaLonde, Owens works his stories like a trickster, turning ideas back against themselves and playing with contradictory possibilities. The conflicting Native and Western perspectives of time, history, humor, and authority dramatize hoe such classes can threaten to undermine any sense of home and identity for Indians. In the process, Owens underscores the sham of the ethnic identities foisted upon American Indians-the Noble Savage, the Silent Indian, the Vanishing Native, and the Indian as Tragic Victim.
Nature Prose
Nature Prose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature Prose write by Dominic Head. This book was released on 2022-08-15. Nature Prose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of 'nature' in contemporary imaginative prose reveals some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis, but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.
Louis Owens
Louis Owens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louis Owens write by Joe Lockard. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Louis Owens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens’s work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Of Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish American descent, Owens’s work includes mysteries, novels, literary scholarship, and autobiographical essays. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: “Owens and the World,” “Owens and California,” and “The Novels.” The essays present an excellent assessment of Owens’s literary legacy, noting his contributions to American literature, ethnic literature, and Native American literature and highlighting his contributions to a variety of theories and genres. The collection concludes with a coda of personal poetic reflections on Owens by Diane Glancy and Kimberly Blaeser. Libraries, students, scholars, and the general public interested in Native American literature and the landscape of contemporary US literature will welcome this reflective volume that analyzes a vast range of Louis Owens’s imaginative fictions, personal accounts, and critical work.
Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times
Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times write by Norman K. Denzin. This book was released on 2017-03-27. Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume analyzes the challenges presented to carrying out qualitative inquiry by the neoliberalization of education, publishing and government.
Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature
Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature write by Jennifer McClinton-Temple. This book was released on 2015-04-22. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.
